Sentence examples for were to lessen from inspiring English sources

District-based Fannie Mae and McLean-based Freddie Mac are the area's largest corporate donors, and if they were to lessen or stop their giving, the impact on the region's social safety net would be devastating, nonprofit leaders said.

And even if you were to lessen the impact of gerrymandering, which has been a fact of political life since the earliest days of the American republic, there is no way we get to a majority in the House without doing better among white working class voters because so many RAE voters are concentrated in heavily Democratic urban core House districts.

The main reasons for the introduction of artificial turf were to lessen the impact of environmental conditions on surfaces, to decrease the high operating costs associated with NG, and to increase field usability [ 3- 5].

The goal is to lessen smoking, right?

"My goal is to lessen the pain of dying".

(Citations). The purpose of this bill is to lessen the harshness of that doctrine.

To explain too much more would be to lessen the experience for you as a player.

"The whole goal of this study was to lessen my angst during the N.C.A.A. tournament".

"My goal," he said then, "is to lessen the pain of dying".

The result has been to lessen considerably the incidence of officially measured poverty.

Another possible impact would be to lessen dependence on government research grants that finance much of the work at HSPH.